Sample steps for creating BMC licenses in software license management (SWLM)
Software license management uses the market version of the software product for matching software products to license certificates. Discovery products may discover product versions by minor versions, but software license certificates generally track with a major or market version of the product.
For example, Adobe Acrobat Professional is discovered with various minor versions in BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), such as 6.1.1, 6.1.2, and 6.1.3, depending on the patch level. The market version attribute enables you to refer to these versions by a single version in BMC Atrium CMDB. For more information about setting up market versions, see To add product model and version information in the Product Catalog.
The examples in this section walks you through steps to create sample CIs and Products to track software license management. In a real-world scenario, a discovery product will discover and populate these CIs o the CMDB. However, these examples manually populate the CMDB with CIs to illustrate the steps for you.
For reference to steps to create each type of a license, see the following table:
Reference | License type description |
|---|---|
The enterprise license type is a company-wide site license for the product. It counts all instances of the product associated to the license. | |
The per copy license type counts the licenses deployed based on the number of users of the product. If the same user has the product installed on two computers, such as a desktop and a laptop, that user consumes one license. A user of a product is identified by a BMC_Person record related to the computer system on which the product is installed. If no users are related to the computer system on which the product is installed, the product consumes one license. | |
The per copy per device license type counts the number of licenses consumed based on the number of computer systems on which the product is installed. To be in compliance, the number of licenses must be equal to or less than the number of licenses purchased, and the number of copies per device must not exceed the number indicated on the license certificate. For example, if a license certificate for Product X indicates that it is licensed for two copies per device, but three copies are discovered on a single computer, then the license is out of compliance. | |
The per core constant based license type is computed based on a constant factor for each processor core. The value for each processor is then summed to determine the number of licenses consumed. | |
The per core multiplier based license type is computed based on a multiplier factor for each processor core. The value for each processor is then summed to determine the number of licenses consumed. | |
The per core sum based license type is based on the sum of all unique CPU cores associated with products that are associated with the certificate. | |
The per CPU constant based license type is computed based on a constant factor for each processor. The value for each processor is then summed to determine the number of licenses consumed. | |
The per CPU multiplier based license type is computed based on a multiplier factor for each processor. The value for each processor is then summed to determine the number of licenses consumed. | |
The per CPU sum based license type is based on the sum of all unique CPUs associated with products that are associated with the license certificate. | |
The per instance license type is a simple count of the Software CIs in your organization. | |
The per server license type supports doing a count of the unique number of servers that a particular software title is installed on, and compares that with the total number of servers that a certificate allows from a compliance standpoint. The connection question for this license type can be - What is the server/model manufacturer? | |
The site license type recognizes the product as licensed for an entire site within the company. It can be restricted to a region, site group, or site. The site is determined by the site of the computer system on which the product is installed. This license type does simple count of instances of the software. The connection question for this license type could be - Enter the site. |